requin-taupe commun
The verdict
“requin-taupe commun” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 19
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Espèce de grand requin (Lamna nasus) du littoral et de surface marine, au museau pointu (rostre), à 5 paires de grandes fentes branchiales, au dos bleu-noir ou gris.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | requin-taupe commun |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.kɛ̃ top kɔ.mœ̃\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “requin-taupe commun” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for requin-taupe commun is 19 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁə.kɛ̃ top kɔ.mœ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Espèce de grand requin (Lamna nasus) du littoral et de surface marine, au museau pointu (rostre), à 5 paires de grandes fentes branchiales, au dos bleu-noir ou gris.".
No misspelling variants are generated for requin-taupe commun in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is requin-taupe commun, spelled R-E-Q-U-I-N---T-A-U-P-E- -C-O-M-M-U-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Espèce de grand requin (Lamna nasus) du littoral et de surface marine, au museau pointu (rostre), à 5 paires de grandes fentes branchiales, au dos bleu-noir ou gris.
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- The one correct French spelling is R-E-Q-U-I-N---T-A-U-P-E- -C-O-M-M-U-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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